Citations with the tag: DIFFUSION of innovations -- Research

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Analyzing data on utility patents from 1975 to 2002 in the careers of 35,400 collaborative inventors, this study examines the influence of brokered versus cohesive collaborative social structures on an individual's creativity. We test the hypothesis that brokerage--direct ties to collaborators...

BACKGROUND Previous research has shown that the adoption of effective innovations in engineering education typically lags behind awareness of those innovations, and this delay may be limiting the positive impacts of advances in engineering education. PURPOSE This study investigates early...

The study of innovation has traditionally been characterized by two main paradigms: the 'diffusion of innovations' and the 'domestication' of innovations. They were originally considered as two distinct approaches with their own methods, tools and assumptions. However, recently an...

Qualification is considered one of the main factors of developmental potential from the regional perspectives because it is the factor of ability to create and diffuse innovations. In this context the paper focuses on community schools and application of the theoretical concept of community...

The purpose of the research is in the theoretical analysis of the characteristics and problems of formation of an open innovation environment and the development of proposals on sustainable development on the basis of the potential of innovative entrepreneurship. It discusses the key conditions...

Background: Purchasing electronic health records (EHRs) typically follows a process in which potential adopters actively seek information, compare alternatives, and form attitudes towards the product. A potential source of information on EHRs that can be used in the process is vendor websites....

Purpose: This article aims to analyze business models and their key elements. In light of the considerations on the merits and circumstances of innovation in business models, it presents the results of a panel discussion conducted in this area during the interdisciplinary conference "Time to...

Internet Trading Service "her after called" (ITS) is an information intensive business that has become a major trend in the financial marketplace nowadays. It is important to understand what predictors will impact the customer's attitude toward using ITS in Jordan. This paper is concerned with...

The Internet has given rise to new organizational forms of integrating users into firm innovation. Companies willing to make use of external resources can now outsource innovation-related tasks to huge "crowds" outside the company. The extant literature on participation motives assumes a...

Bounding strength and intensity of networking provides the integrity of the national innovation system (NIS). The integrity allows the system to perform its fundamental functions of production, storage, diffusion and economic use of new knowledge. The primary factors of system dysfunctions...

Teacher- and school-level factors influence the fidelity of implementation of school-based prevention and social character and development (SACD) programs. Using a diffusion of innovations framework, the relationships among teacher beliefs and attitudes towards a prevention/SACD program and the...

Purpose: This article explores the Triple Helix model and conceptualizes the role of Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) as intermediaries for the valuation and commercialization of the knowledge generated at universities and research centers. The result is a synthesis of the main research lines...

What happens to organizations that chase the hottest information technologies? This study examines some of the important organizational impacts of the fashion phenomenon in IT. An IT fashion is a transitory collective belief that an information technology is new, efficient, and at the forefront...

The paper explores the approaches to the study of the factors in building industrial-innovative infrastructure. The author consideres the theories of regional growth revealing the specifics of the spatial diffusion of innovation. The groups of general and specific factors of...

Despite the popularity of the term Â«innovationÂ» in scientific researches of the XXI century there is no definition that would display the main properties of this category. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the essence of the notion of Â«innovationÂ». The paper is devoted to the...

The authors respond to the article "The Effect of Information Sources and Communication Channels on the Diffusion of Innovation in a Data Base Development Environment," from a 1990 issue of the journal "Management Science." The authors suggest that the research showed no significant differences...

Comprehension of how an innovation disseminates is a key to understand in which ways companies, as well institutions, may conduct innovative activities. Therefore, this paper aims to evaluate the diffusion process of a technology that applies castor beans to product biodiesel in the State of...

This study describes the development of three case studies that included a combination of multimedia production and instructional design skills within a particular setting. These case studies incorporated real-life incidents from 47 professional instructional designers. These instructional...

Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory provides prescribed stages for an innovation to traverse, in order to obtain field adoption. This study utilised DOI theory to demonstrate the impact a manipulated environment may have on diffusing public policy. Data were provided by the Office of Community...

This research aims to minimize the resistance for the development and transfer of radical innovations from R&D and/or universities to industries. Three categories of potential barriers have been identified that may influence, separately or combined, the development and the transfer of radical...

The Clean-Tech Adoption Model (C-TAM) explains the adoption process of clean technology. Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Usage of Technology (UTAUT) combined with qualitative research and empirical data gathering, the model predicts adoption based on the perceived quality, effort,...

In recent years the proliferation of a new technological evolution has aroused great interest from science and practice: social media. Subsuming different types of online applications where users can create, edit and share content, social media enables new forms of interaction with others....

Social entrepreneurs have employed social capital, funding and a vision as intrinsic resources for building social enterprise. Technology is another crucial resource which has the capability to transform an idea into an operational endeavor. Technology supports in creating a new social venture,...

Karshenas and Stoneman (RAND J Econ 24(4):503â€“528, 1993) gathered four theories of technology adoption: the rank, stock, order and epidemic effects. Tests of these four effects reveal support for rank and epidemic but not the stock or order effects. Since then numerous other studies have...

While the course of technological change is widely accepted to be highly uncertain and unpredictable, little work has identified or studied the ultimate sources and causes of that uncertainty. This paper proposes that purely technological uncertainty derives from inventors' search processes with...

This research explores the extent to which competitive actions of multinational corporations (MNCs) and local vendors of Internet technology products shape the diffusion of their respective products in emerging markets. Drawing on competitive technology diffusion, the Austrian perspective on...

This paper introduces a framework for modeling innovation diffusion that includes price and advertising. The adoption of a new product is characterized by two steps: awareness and adoption. Awareness is the stage of being informed about the product search attributes. The process of becoming...

Increasing importance of emerging information technology, especially the data base component, has prompted the examination of the process of diffusion of innovations in the context of data base system development. This paper (1) examines the extent to which information sources and communication...

The study of organizational adoption of administrative innovations has been generally guided by the imitation hypothesis. This hypothesis states that, within a relevant population of firms, an innovation is first adopted by a select few innovators who communicate and influence others to adopt it...

In the implementation of an organizational innovation, managers are usually presumed to influence the extent to which the innovation is adopted and used by their subordinates. However, the findings presented in this paper suggest that the managerial influence is not equally perceived by all...

Through a direct survey conducted on a sample of firms operating in the Sicilian fruit and vegetable sector, the present study provides an empirical evidence on the degree of diffusion of ICTs as well as on relationships with the regional distribution system. To pursue this goal, a multiple...

Software piracy by users has been identified as the worst problem facing the software industry today. Software piracy permits the shadow diffusion of a software parallel to its legal diffusion in the marketplace, increasing its user base over time. Because of this software shadow diffusion, a...

The rise of social broadcasting technologies has greatly facilitated open access to information worldwide, not only by powering decentralized information production and consumption, but also by expediting information diffusion through social interactions like content sharing. Voluntary...

The importance of innovation in human development is undeniable. Since the 1780s, successive scientific and technological revolutions have introduced new products and services with tremendous impact on well-being and general welfare. Yet innovation has not been available to all individuals and...

New empirical models of consumer demand that incorporate social effects seek to measure the causal effect of past adopter's behavior--the "installed-base"--on current adoption behavior. Identifying such causal effects is challenging due to several alternative confounds that generate correlation...

The diffusion of innovation theory is deployed to investigate the global assimilation of collaborative information technologies (CITs). Based on the concepts of IT acquisition and utilization, an assimilation framework is presented to highlight four states (limited, focused, lagging, and...

While the sales of mobile digital content have been growing exponentially, the understanding of its diffusion remains limited in the literature. In this study, we set out to enrich this understanding using a growth curve modelling approach. We applied four widely used growth curve models of...

In the paper the general characteristic of innovative activity in Russia is given, the factors of innovation are identified; the performance indicators of innovation are determined; the qualitative relations between the factors and performance indicators of innovation are identified; the models...

The advantages of mobile technologies have not been lost on higher education institutions, and they have tried to provide educational services through the use of mobile learning management system (LMS). However, offering such services does not necessarily mean that the students will adopt the...

Standard Business Reporting (SBR) is an Australian government initiative aimed at enhancing business productivity by reducing compliance costs. This initiative commenced in 2010 and is based on an international reporting language, eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). To date, general...

The burgeoning growth in information/communication/multimedia technologies and their possible impact on American consumers and households continue to arouse a great deal of popular and scholarly interest. In particular, the phenomenon of computing in the home has given rise to much debate...

Aims: Implementation of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Danish municipalities has been analyzed using the Roger's Diffusion of Innovation Theory. Municipalities were chosen from among those who presented their health policies on websites according to the status of inclusion of HIA into health...

The authors provide an empirical test of the effects of competition on the adoption of technological innovations by organizations. They follow the conceptualization developed in the model they proposed previously in the Journal of Marketing. An empirical study of the factors accounting for the...

Since the publication of the Bass model in 1969, research on the modeling of the diffusion of innovations has resulted in a body of literature consisting of several dozen articles, books, and assorted other publications. Attempts have been made to reexamine the structural and conceptual...

When investigating the diffusion of an innovation, three major decisions must be resolved with respect to the derivation of adopter categories [ 11 ]: (1) determination of the number of adopter categories; (2) determination of the percentage of adopters to include in each category; and (3)...

This article features a study that examined the effect of similarities in three sets of characteristics of both student and teacher firms on the capabilities of a learning alliance, a form of partnership in which one or both firms learn new skills from the other. The article offers advice for...

The effectiveness of workgroups should be affected by decisions on technology and structure. Three dimensions of technology, three of structure, and two measures of workgroup effectiveness were used to test a contingency model. Results revealed little support for hypothesized relationships....

The adoption processes of two related administrative innovations in the private sector dealing with employee health are examined. Results of multiple logistic regressions using survey data on a sample of Illinois firms suggest that these two innovations are synergistically linked, such that the...

Cultural variations across nations and organizational culture-based differences between organizations that are involved in the transfer of various kinds of technologies are considered two major factors that influence the success of transfer. Relevant contributions from cross-cultural studies on...